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Southlake Carroll football team adds yoga to its workouts

I was out at Southlake Carroll today for the end of the Dragons’ practice and got to see something you don’t see a lot of after football workouts:

Yoga.

Quite a few other sports teams use yoga as part of their workouts, but not a lot of high school football teams. Not that I know of, anyway. It’s a new thing for Carroll this year, and the Dragons’ first workout with it was today.

The hope for Carroll is that it will help with flexibility and maybe cut down some injuries. Probably couldn’t hurt, although when I tried yoga years ago — and quit soon after — I would say it definitely hurt. At least it did the next day.

After the yoga workout, quarterback Kenny Hill said he felt pretty good. The only time he had tried something like it before was when he did pilates with the Carroll offensive linemen last year.

The players seemed to be taking it seriously, but they also had some fun with it.